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XML Everywhere wrote: > There is no vendor > out there who is ready to fill the shoes > of an Oracle or a SQL Server or a DB2. I would be more cautious and rather say that we don't see any vendor which seeems able to match them right now. These kind of situations may change and they can change faster than one would think, though. When I have joined Sybase in the early 90's, the issue we were facing was still to convince to use a RDBMS (more than to make the difference with Oracle, Informix or Ingres) and these prospects had the exact same discourse than you have (if you change RDBMS by hierarchical, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 by IDMS, ADABAS and IMS and XML databases by RDBMS in you email you'll get a pretty good idea of what we were told). RDBMS were already known for a while but the IT managers were not convinced yet. To them, the vendors of hierarchical databases were so well established that there was no way this could ever change. As you know, at this point, it took only a couple of years to wipe hierarchical databases out. I don't pretend I can predict the future of XML databases, but I wouldn't predict RDBMS will stay forever either! Eric -- Rendez-vous à Paris pour le Forum XML. http://www.technoforum.fr/Pages/forumXML01/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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